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Today NBN released an update to their project progress and the project is get built, improving Australia’s connectivity and speeds. NBN Co made an impressive $620 million in revenue (not profit) in the first 3 months of this year. This represents a 53% increase compared to September 30th last year. As...

The Internet is awesome and the faster that internet is, the more you can take advantage of the entertainment, education and information opportunities. In the case of the NBN it made some improvements to Australia’s broadband speeds, but the decision to move to a mixture of technologies means it...

This year, something pretty dramatic has changed with the NBN. Australians are switching to faster higher speed tiers, largely helped by free or discounted offerings by Retail Service Providers (RSP). New data released today reveals 70% of new orders are now based on wholesale speeds tiers of 50 Mbps...

NBN Co have announced in their search for a new CEO, they’ve contracted the services of Korn Ferry. This company is a US-based company with head quarters in Los Angeles, California, who have since 1969 have grown to add offices across the world. The company’s primary product is Executive search, a...

Podcasts are brilliant, they’re a free (usually) source of expert information you can listen to to entertain or inform yourself, while doing other more mundane tasks. The latest podcast is from NBNCo called ‘Get to know your NBN’ and is available now on SoundCloud. The idea of an NBN...

When I first connected my new home to the NBN of FTTP, I selected MyRepublic. Long story short, speeds dropped to less than 10Mbps despite paying for 100Mbps. After tiring of being told the issue was on my end, I changed providers to Aussie Broadband. The signup process at...

If you’re an ICT professional, NBN Co want you to register for their new ICT channel. This channel aims to provide technology consultants and vendors with access critical information and support when helping businesses connect to the nbn access network. Research (conducted by NBN Co) reveals almost 40% of...

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has published for the first time, broadband performance data about Australia’s internet service providers. Australian’s internet speed on the NBN in theory should be the same regardless of the provider you choose, but in reality, it differs, a lot. The data shows highlights...

Australians are all too familiar with the ‘challenges’ associated with the rollout of the national broadband network and NBN Co today have announced a change to address customer experiences. The company is launching a new monthly progress report to allow Australians to track its performance in improving services delivered on...

It has been revealed that Australia’s PM Malcolm Turnbull has some of the fastest NBN connected to his mansion in Point Piper. He also organised the hookup at Kirribilli and now has a 100/40Mbps connection. While many online are outraged about jumping the cue to have his properties connected. Personally...

NBN covers both consumers and business and today’s announcement by NBN Co is firmly targeted towards Australian businesses. A new trial has commenced which will refine the design and construction of a new wholesale direct fibre product. nbn Enterprise Ethernet is designed to deliver a wholesale high-bandwidth product that...

NB The ABC have got their hands on some Government Cabinet documents that were intended to be private. While the documents span a number of industries, the most relevant to our audience are ones that cover the NBN. To publicise the documents, ABC built a dedicated website – http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-31/cabinet-files-reveal-inner-government-decisions/9168442...

Time for a good news story about the NBN. Rural students in the Northern Territory are the first to access nbn Sky Muster satellite service multicast technology. For students trying to learn, access to the internet is essential to their education and ultimately will be a key determinant in...

NBN Co have announced dramatic changes to the way the NBN is charged at the wholesale level. These changes are a firm smack down for the RSPs that have oversold their networks which unsurprisingly has created end-user dramas across the country. These new changes will see, for the first time,...

This morning nbn revealed it is halting the rollout of the HFC portion of the NBN rollout. While the project has many issues, it seems HFC connectivity is their biggest right now and they need to take stock of what’s causing the issues and resolve before simply powering ahead...

If you missed the ABC’s Four Corners special last night, its now available on ABC iView to watch on demand. After watching the 42 minute program, I’m not sure we learnt much. Perhaps the most useful information was at the end where NBN CEO Bill Morrow says, As a...

Australia’s National Broadband is powering along and has now surpassed another milestone of 3 million premises, 3,024,650 to be exact, are now activated. The data comes from the latest update to the Weekly Progress Report and shows 6,507,756 premesis that are ready for service. That number of activations represents 46% uptake...

Australia’s part-way through rolling out their National Broadband Network and some struggled to articulate why we need high-speed broadband, particularly FTTP and spending billions of dollars of tax payer’s money. Last night I downloaded Forza Motorsport 7. That game is massive, on the PC and eventually on the Xbox...

Most of the conversation we have about the NBN in Australia relates to the consumer market. From the start of the project it was always clear some of the biggest benefit would be to business, but until now that hasn’t really been a focus of the project. Today that...

Whatever you think about Australia’s NBN project, it is bringing in some serious dollars. In the 2017 Financial Year update, nbn have announced that they’ve achieved an important milestone of A$1 Billion in revenue, a figure that by 2020, they believe will reach A$5 billion. The project costs are...

Speedtest.net is the website and mobile app millions of people use to test their internet speeds. With so much data from across the globe, Speedtest are well positioned to create a comparison between countries to understand who’s winning and who’s loosing. Speedtest are now releasing a Global Index of...

The NBN project has recently been taking plenty of heat from unhappy customers frustrated with connection issue finger-pointing between nbn and RSPs. Today Vodafone Australia is making a substantial...

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